Sunday, June 5, 2016

1.A “calendar stick” carved
centuries ago by the Winnebago tribe may provide the first evidence that the
North American Indians have developed advanced full-year calendars basing them
on systematic astronomical observation.

(A) that the North
American Indians have developed advanced full-year calendars basing them

(B) of the North
American Indians who have developed advanced full-year calendars and based them

(C) of the
development of advanced full-year calendars by North American Indians, basing
them

(D) of the North
American Indians and their development of advanced full-year calendars based（E）

(E) that the North
American Indians developed advanced full-year calendars based

2.A 1972 agreement between Canada
and the United States reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities
had been allowed to dump into the Great Lakes.

(A) reduced the
amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump

(B) reduced the
phosphate amount that municipalities had been dumping

(C) reduces the
phosphate amount municipalities have been allowed to dump

(D) reduced the
amount of phosphates that municipalities are allowed to dump（A）

(E) reduces the
amount of phosphates allowed for dumping by municipalities

3.A collection of 38 poems by
Phillis Wheatley, a slave, was published in the 1770’s, the first book by a
Black woman and it was only the second published by an American woman.

(A) it was only
the second published by an American woman

(B) it was only
the second that an American woman published

(C) the second one
only published by an American woman

(D) the second one
only that an American woman published（E）

(E) only the
second published by an American woman

4.A common disability in test
pilots is hearing impairment, a consequence of sitting too close to large
jet engines for long periods of time.

(A) a consequence
of sitting too close to large jet engines for long periods of time

(B) a consequence
from sitting for long periods of time too near to large jet engines

(C) a consequence
which resulted from sitting too close to large jet engines for long periods of
time

(D) damaged from
sitting too near to large jet engines for long periods of time（A）

(E) damaged
because they sat too close to large jet engines for long periods of time

5.A controversial figure
throughout most of his public life, the Black leader Marcus Garvey advocated that
some Blacks return to Africa, the land that, to him, symbolized the possibility
of freedom.

(A) that some
Blacks return to Africa, the land that, to him, symbolized the possibility of
freedom

(B) that some
Blacks return to the African land symbolizing the possibility of freedom to him

(C) that some
Blacks return to Africa which was the land which symbolized the possibility of
freedom to him

(D) some Black’s
returning to Africa which was the land that to him symbolized the possibility
of freedom（A）

(E) some Black’s
return to the land symbolizing the possibility of freedom to him, Africa

6.A fire in an enclosed space
burns with the aid of reflected radiation that preheats the fuel, making
ignition much easier and flames spreading more quickly.

(A) flames
spreading

(B) flame spreads

(C) flames are
caused to spread

(D) causing flames
to spread（D）

(E) causing
spreading of the flames

7.A firm that specializes in the
analysis of handwriting claims from a one-page writing sample that it can
assess more than three hundred personality traits, including enthusiasm,
imagination, and ambition.

(A) from a
one-page writing sample that it can assess

(B) from a
one-page writing sample it has the ability of assessing

(C) the ability,
from a one-page writing sample, of assessing

(D) to be able,
from a one-page writing sample, to assess（D）

(E) being able to
assess, from a one-page writing sample,

8.A huge flying reptile that died
out with the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago, the Quetzalcoatlus had a
wingspan of 36 feet, believed to be the largest flying creature the
world has ever seen.

(A) believed to be

(B) and that is
believed to be

(C) and it is
believed to have been

(D) which was, it
is believed,（C）

(E) which is
believed to be

9.A Labor Department study states
that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five
percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two
percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.

(A) numbers of
women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent
increase

(B) numbers of
women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent

(C) numbers of
women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent

(D) number of
women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent（D）

(E) number of
women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent
increase

10.A large rise in the number of
housing starts in the coming year should boost new construction dollars by
several billion dollars, making the construction industry’s economic health
much more robust than five years ago.

(A) making the
construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago

(B) and make the
construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago

(C) making the
construction industry’s economic health much more robust than it was five years
ago

(D) to make the
construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago（C）

(E) in making the
construction industry’s economic health much more robust than it as five years
ago

11.A letter by Mark Twain,
written in the same year as The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were published, reveals
that Twain provided financial assistance to one of the first Black students at
Yale Law School.

(A) A letter by
Mark Twain, written in the same year as The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were published,

(B) A letter by
Mark Twain, written in the same year of publication as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,

(C) A letter by
Mark Twain, written in the same year that The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published,

(D) Mark Twain
wrote a letter in the same year as he published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that（C）

(E) Mark Twain
wrote a letter in the same year of publication as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that

12.A little under a million years
ago, the briny waters of the Baltic Sea began flooding into the cold North
Atlantic: geologists are still debating whether the flood was gradual or
created a cataclysm.

(A) whether the
flood was gradual or created a cataclysm

(B) if the flood
was gradual or created a cataclysm

(C) about whether
the flood was gradual or cataclysmic

(D) whether the
flood was gradual or cataclysmic（D）

(E) whether the
flood was gradual or it created a cataclysm

13.A majority of the international
journalists surveyed view nuclear power stations as unsafe at present but that
they will, or could, be made sufficiently safe in the future.

(A) that they
will, or could,

(B) that they
would, or could,

(C) they will be
or could

(D) think that
they will be or could（D）

(E) think the
power stations would or could

14.A migraine typically afflicts
one side of the head, lasts for hours or days, and may recur as infrequently
as once every other month or often, as daily.

(A) as
infrequently as once every other month or often, as

(B) as
infrequently as once every other month or as often as

(C) infrequently,
as often as once every other month, or often, like

(D) infrequently, like
once every other month, or often, like（B）

(E) infrequently,
like once every other month, or as often as

15.A new phenomena, which is
visible at Managua’s major intersections, are waves of vendors and beggars,
which include many children and mob cars at the
stoplights.

(A) A new
phenomena, which is visible at Managua’s major intersections, are waves of
vendors and beggars, which include many children and

(B) Visible at
Managua’s major intersections are waves of vendors and beggars with many
children, new phenomena that

(C) A new
phenomenon visible at Managua’s major intersections is waves of vendors and
beggars, many of them children, who

(D) Phenomenally
new waves of vendors, beggars, and many children are visible at Managua’s major
intersections, which（C）

(E) A wave of
vendors and beggars, many of whom are children, are visible at Managua’s major
intersections, where they are a new phenomenon and

16.A number of linguists contend that
all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world’s five billion people can
be traced back to a common root language.

(A) that all of
the thousands of languages spoken by the world’s five billion people can be
traced

(B) that the
world’s five billion people speak thousands of languages of which all can be
traced

(C) the world’s
five billion people speak thousands of languages which are all traceable

(D) all of the
thousands of languages spoken by the world’s five billion people to be
traceable（A）

(E) the ability to
trace all of the thousands of languages that are spoken by the world’s five
billion people

17.A patient accusing a doctor of
malpractice will find it difficult to prove damage if there is a lack of
some other doctor to testify about proper medical procedures.

(A) if there is a
lack of some other doctor to testify

(B) unless there
will be another doctor to testify

(C) without
another doctor’s testimony

(D) should there
be no testimony from some other doctor（C）

(E) lacking
another doctor to testify

18.A peculiar feature of the
embryonic mammalian circulatory system is that in the area of the heart the
cells adhere to one another, beating in unison and adopting specialized
orientations exclusive of one another.

(A) beating in
unison and adopting

(B) they beat in
unison while adopting

(C) beat in
unison, and adopt

(D) beating in
unison yet adopting（D）

(E) even though
they beat in unison and adopt

19.A President entering the final
two years of a second term is likely to be at a severe disadvantage and is
often unable to carry out a legislative program.

(A) likely to be
at a severe disadvantage and is often unable to

(B) likely
severely disadvantaged and often unable to

(C) liable to be
severely disadvantaged and cannot often

(D) liable that he
or she is at a severe disadvantage and cannot often（A）

(E) at a severe
disadvantage, often likely to be unable that he or she can

20.A prolific architect who worked
from the turn of the century until the late 1950’s, Julia Morgan designed
nearly 800 buildings in California, perhaps most notably William Randolph
Hearst’s monumental estate at San Simeon.

(A) Julia Morgan
designed nearly 800 buildings in California, perhaps most notably William
Randolph Hearst’s monumental estate at San Simeon

(B) perhaps the
most notable of the nearly 800 buildings in California designed by Julia Morgan
was William Randolph Hearst’s monumental estate at San Simeon

(C) of the nearly
800 buildings in California designed by Julia Morgan, perhaps the most notable
was William Randolph Hearst’s monumental estate at San Simeon

(D) nearly 800
buildings in California were designed by Julia Morgan, of which William
Randolph Hearst’s monumental estate at San Simeon is perhaps the most notable（A）

(E) William
Randolph Hearst’s monumental estate at San Simeon is perhaps the most notable
of the nearly 800 buildings in California designed by Julia Morgan